Your Book Review: A Residence Of 21 Years In The Sandwich Islands
Finalist #6 in the Book Review Contest
In October 1819, Hiram Bingham I, accompanied by his wife Sybil and friends, bid farewell to their family at Park Street Church in Boston before embarking on a five-month journey to the Sandwich Islands. These missionaries did not seek wealth or adventure; their goal was to uplift an entire nation from heathenry to civilization.
Hiram, a student at Andover Seminary, was inspired by Opukaha'ia's vision of aiding Hawaiians and joined the mission to spread the Gospel. Despite Opukaha'ia's untimely death, the group set sail with the conviction that they were neighbors to the 130,000 native Hawaiians, just as much as their hometown in Vermont.
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